Comments on: The Red Room Curse: The Legend That Became Reality http://www.tofugu.com/2013/08/22/the-red-room-curse-the-legend-that-became-reality/ A Japanese Language & Culture Blog Sun, 13 Apr 2014 11:32:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.2 By: Kuchisake-Onna http://www.tofugu.com/2013/08/22/the-red-room-curse-the-legend-that-became-reality/comment-page-1/#comment-301929 Tue, 01 Apr 2014 13:48:00 +0000 http://www.tofugu.com/?p=34052#comment-301929 What happens if you don’t exit the popup?
Do you live?

]]> By: Carol Tôn http://www.tofugu.com/2013/08/22/the-red-room-curse-the-legend-that-became-reality/comment-page-1/#comment-277270 Sat, 21 Dec 2013 14:44:00 +0000 http://www.tofugu.com/?p=34052#comment-277270 Your wrtitting is so good !! :)

]]> By: MYnameISyou'reAfuckface http://www.tofugu.com/2013/08/22/the-red-room-curse-the-legend-that-became-reality/comment-page-1/#comment-276942 Thu, 19 Dec 2013 21:54:00 +0000 http://www.tofugu.com/?p=34052#comment-276942 No she watched “Red room” which may have caused those “Issuse’s”

]]> By: Richard Robertson http://www.tofugu.com/2013/08/22/the-red-room-curse-the-legend-that-became-reality/comment-page-1/#comment-175592 Thu, 05 Sep 2013 21:43:00 +0000 http://www.tofugu.com/?p=34052#comment-175592 Hehehe nice :D

]]> By: Ieva http://www.tofugu.com/2013/08/22/the-red-room-curse-the-legend-that-became-reality/comment-page-1/#comment-173846 Tue, 03 Sep 2013 23:38:00 +0000 http://www.tofugu.com/?p=34052#comment-173846 When I was younger I came across something similar. Well, it wasn’t the Red Room, and it definitely wasn’t Japanese. But it was an online pop-up that killed something.
It was called the “Webkinz murderer.” It was a made-up thing that was meant to scare little kids into thinking their precious Webkinz pets would be killed by it. They said it was a box that would appear when Webkinz World loaded, it would be there and no matter where you clicked it would open the box, and out would jump some kind of monster, which would slaughter your pets and they would be there, dead and bloody.
When I ran across it I got scared. But it was just a story.
This is the same sort of thing, except it’s aimed at older people and not little kids. Honestly….
If it was real no one would be able to tell you what it’s like. Because in order to know, you have to be dead. It’s just a story.
Now, about the murder linked to it… Maybe that girl had mental problems, was emotionally unstable, whatever. We don’t know why she did what she did. We just know that she spent a fair bit of time watching a video about an evil pop-up that killed people.
She didn’t see the actual pop-up. No one has, have they? If they did this would have been a lot bigger than just some legend. It would be all over the news – I mean, a whole list of names? Of people who coated the walls in their blood? Please, it would be a bit more well-known than this.
So to anyone who’s scared, don’t worry. It’s just a story. Logic says it’s not true. Besides, you “commit suicide” because of it? What, do you loose control of your body because of a stupid computer screen? Seriously? I mean, how stupid does that sound?

No offense meant to Sarah. I think you did a great job writing this. But I think the story itself, the idea that some digital ad can kill you, is absurd.
I also think that using the murder Satomi Mitarai as proof of a legend made to freak people out is somewhat insulting to her memory. I mean, what do her parents think about that? I can imagine I would be upset…

]]> By: Rin http://www.tofugu.com/2013/08/22/the-red-room-curse-the-legend-that-became-reality/comment-page-1/#comment-173699 Tue, 03 Sep 2013 16:34:00 +0000 http://www.tofugu.com/?p=34052#comment-173699 I don’t know, there have been some pretty disturbing posts involving *gulp* AKB48.

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